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title: Responsibility means doing your duties and owning the results of you… — Virtues: courage, responsibility, rights and dut… · tree and pragmatics
description: Responsibility means doing your duties and owning the results of your actions instead of making excuses; Christians believe God gives each person gifts and tasks to look after well. Who acts: Responsibility, Christians, God, your. A sentence of the lesson «Virtues: courage, responsibility, rights an
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# Virtues: courage, responsibility, rights and duties, sentence 2

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Responsibility means doing your duties and owning the results of your actions instead of making excuses; Christians believe God gives each person gifts and tasks to look after well.

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**Who acts:** Responsibility, Christians, God, your · **What happens:** mean, do, own, make, believe, give · **To what, where:** duties, results, excuses, person gifts, actions · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Virtues: courage, responsibility, rights and duties» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Responsibility, Christians, God, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:035-courage-responsibility-rights-and-duties.lesson:2
# text = Responsibility means doing your duties and owning the results of your actions instead of making excuses; Christians believe God gives each person gifts and tasks to look after well.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 035-courage-responsibility-rights-and-duties.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Responsibility	responsibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	duties	duty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
7	owning	own	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	results	result	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	actions	action	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	15	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:advmod
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
16	excuses	excuse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
20	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
22	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:det
23	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=24:cc
26	tasks	task	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl	_	_
29	after	after	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Responsibility |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** *not said to happen* | gerund | Responsibility *not said here* | your duties |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality |
| 3 | **own** | gerund | Responsibility *not said here* | the results of your actions |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot result=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | gerund | Responsibility *not said here* | excuses |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset excuse=Product |
| 5 | **believe** | present | Christians |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **give** | present | God | person gifts and tasks |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme |
| 7 | **look after** | to-infinitive | God *not said here* | person gifts and tasks *not said here* |  |  |  | well *property* | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **result** |  |  | your actions |  |  |  |  | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 9 | **act** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom action «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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